Yearbook of Morphology 1999

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Theme: Diachronic Morphology (guest editor: Martin Haspelmath)

   1. Umlaut as signans and signatum: synchronic and diachronic aspects

      • Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

      Pages 1-23

   2. What sort of thing is a derivational affix? Diachronic evidence from Romanian and Spanish suffixes

      • Martin Maiden

      Pages 25-52

   3. The development of “junk”. Irregularization strategies of have and say in the Germanic languages

      • Damaris Nübling

      Pages 53-74

   4. Paradigm organization and lexical connections in the development of the Italian passato remoto

      • Elisabetta Magni

      Pages 75-96

   5. On useful darkness: loss and destruction of transparency by linguistic change, borrowing, and word creation

      • Elke Ronneberger-Sibold

      Pages 97-120

3. Other articles

   1. The representation of prefixed forms in the Italian lexicon: evidence from the distribution of intervocalic [s] and [z] in Northern Italian

      • Marco Baroni

      Pages 121-152

   2. On inherent inflection feeding derivation in Polish

      • Bożena Cetnarowska

      Pages 153-183

   3. The processing of interfixed German compounds

      • Wolfgang U. Dressler, Gary Libben, Jacqueline Stark, Christiane Pons, Gonia Jarema

      Pages 185-220

   4. Word formation rules in a default inheritance framework: a Network Morphology account of Russian personal nouns

      • Andrew Hippisley

      Pages 221-261

   5. Stem selection and OT

      • Steven G. Lapointe

      Pages 263-297

   6. Verb classifiers as noun incorporation in Israeli sign language

      • Irit Meir

      Pages 299-319

4. Back Matter

   Pages 321-321

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A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to.
The Yearbook of Morphology 1999 focuses on diachronic morphology, and shows, in a number of articles by renowned specialists, how complicated morphological systems develop in the course of time. In addition, this volume deals with a number of hotly debated issues in theoretical morphology: its interaction with phonology (including Optimality Theory), the relation between inflection and word formation, and the formal modeling of inflectional systems. A special feature of this volume is an article on morphology in sign language, a very new and exciting area of research in linguistics.
The relevant evidence comes from a wide variety of languages, amongst which Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages are prominent.
Audience: Theoretical, descriptive, and historical linguists, morphologists, phonologists, and psycholinguists will find this book of interest.

• Affix
• Derivation
• Klang
• Morphological
• Psycholinguist
• Verb
• diachron
• language
• morphology
• phonology
• suffixes
• synchron

From the reviews:

"All of these articles reflect the "cutting edge" of morphological research, making this volume, like its predecessors in the same series, an important acquisition for any linguist or librarian serious about keeping pace with morphological theory." (Edward J. Vajda, LANGUAGE, June 2005)

• Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Geert Booij

• Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Jaap Marle

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